(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) More than 100 residents of Macau returning from overseas, the authorities go all out to prevent the epidemic
China News Service, Macau, January 18 (Reporter Long Tuyou) The Macau Novel Coronavirus Infection Response Coordination Center stated on the 18th that there will be a flight from Tokyo to Macau on January 21, which will pick up 115 overseas residents from 13 countries. Upon returning to Macau, the relevant authorities will go all out to prevent the epidemic and ensure that it will not cause community transmission or affect the health of citizens.
Luo Yilong, medical director of Earl Ren General Hospital, said that this flight has many passengers from high-risk areas such as the United Kingdom and Portugal, and the flight segment passes through multiple international airports. The authorities assess that the risk of imported cases is high and may even occur. Cases caused by a variant virus.
Luo Yilong stated that the SAR government will take strict control measures in all aspects, and make various full preparations and pre-plans in advance to ensure that even if a confirmed case appears, it will appear during the isolation medical observation period and under closed-loop management, so that community transmission will not occur. , It will not affect the safety of citizens, and there is no need to activate the fuse mechanism for the exchange of people in the Mainland.
Ma Chaoxiong, Director of Operations and Communications of the Public Security Police Department, said that the police will prepare sufficient manpower to complete the procedures for incoming passengers on this flight as soon as possible. After completing the procedures, they will assist residents to escort residents to designated medical observation hotels and maintain order along the way.
Liu Fengchi, director of the Public Relations Office of the Tourism Bureau, said that in response to the health bureau’s assessment of those who took the flight back to Australia as a higher-risk group, it was decided to arrange all passengers and crew members to stay on dedicated floors of designated hotels for 21-day isolation medical observation. .
As the entire process adopts closed-loop management, the authorities appealed to family members not to visit the airport or hotel.
As of January 18, Macau had no local case reports for 295 consecutive days and no overseas imported cases for 206 consecutive days.
A total of 46 confirmed cases and no deaths.
There has been no community transmission of the new crown pneumonia virus so far, and no medical staff has been infected.
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